Visit the office of Design, Bitches with Catherine Johnson [Co-Founder and Partner - Design, Bitches] and Rebecca Rudolph [Co-Founder and Partner - Design, Bitches] as they reflect on their education at SCI-Arc and talk about the broader cultural influences in their work. Catherine and Rebecca discuss the role of everyday objects and materials in several of their projects including the recently completed 9 Dots, STEM Education Nonprofit Center.

Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph founded their Los Angeles-based practice Design, Bitches in 2010. Design, Bitches has been recognized with multiple awards from the AIA/LA, Surface, Architect’s Newspaper, shortlisted for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture, and selected as the 2017 recipient of AIA/LA’s Emerging Practice Award. Catherine and Rebecca co-taught at the University of Oregon in 2016 and lectured at Columbia University, Yale University, CalArts, UCLA and George Washington University, and were the keynote speakers at the New Zealand Institute of Architects Inaugural Festival of Architecture. They have served as jurors of AIA Awards throughout the US and participated in numerous workshops and symposiums including the 7Annual Women in Design Conference, See Me, I am Here Symposium at UNLV, and Readings from the LA Forum Reader. This year they collaborated with Dezeen and Adidas to create Stomping Grounds, a park concept with programmatic adjacencies based on the original Adidas P.O.D. system shoe. Catherine & Rebecca are native Californians. Catherine received her MARCH from SCI-Arc and her BIARC from the University of Oregon; Rebecca received her MARCH from SCI-Arc and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Paris VIII.

Crew Credits -

Production:
Creator and Executive Producer - Hernan Diaz Alonso
Producers - Marcelyn Gow/Reza Monahan
Director - Reza Monahan
Director of Photography - Sean Morris
B Camera - Robert Moreno
C Camera - Jeff Cristiani
Sound Engineer - Chris Trueman

Post-Production:
Story Producer - Caroline Post
Editors - Azadeh Navai/Reza Monahan
Sound Mixer - Christina Nguyen

Additional Images and Video courtesy of Design, Bitches

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